Professional News

	Capitol Hill Learns About Advances in Child Psychiatry
	Medicare Private Contracting Said to Have Serious Flaws
	Primary Care Docs Report Poor Access to Quality Mental Health Care
	DB Presidents-Elect Report Local Problems to Trustees
	Medicare Audits L.A. Psychiatrists
	Managed Care Hurts Poor, Minorities, Says Eist
	New Program Hopes to Reduce HIV Infection by Translating Knowledge Into Action
	Survey Draws Profiles of Psychiatric Practice Today
	Supreme Court Decision to Let Oregon’s Assisted-Dying Law Stand
	Illinois Court Rules Against Scientologists
	CMHS Offers Recommendations to Increase Number of MH Professionals in Rural Areas
	Psychiatrists Who Are AMA Members Are Asked to Vote For APA in Special Balloting Now Under Way

Research/Clinical News

	New Program Hopes to Reduce HIV Infection by Translating Knowledge Into Action
	NIH to Study St. John’s Wort for Efficacy as Antidepressant

From the President

Resolution Concerning the Role of Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic in Human Rights Abuses in the Former Yugoslavia.

Residents

Residents' Forum: Politics 101

Letters to the Editor

	Alternative Medicine (Gordon E. Abbo, M.D., Boca Raton, Fla.)
	Child Parameters (Lawrence A. Stone, M.D., President, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
	Women Psychiatrists (Judith H. Gold, M.D., Halifax, Nova Scotia)